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State Representative Craig Haggard, a Republican from the 57th district, who has recently been involved in a controversy over an AI-generated deepfake video falsely depicting his wife, will formally announce his candidacy for Indiana’s 4th Congressional District on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The event, called the “Constitutional Oath Rally,” will take place at the Charleston Pavilion in Hummel Park, Plainfield, beginning at 6 p.m. Haggard is challenging incumbent U.S. Representative Jim Baird, who currently holds the 4th Congressional District seat. The announcement follows a controversy involving an…

Millions of Americans will receive their monthly Social Security payments this week.Why It MattersSocial Security benefits—issued in one lump sum each month for most recipients—provide critical income for retirees, surviving family members, and those with disabilities.What To KnowThe timing of retirement, spousal, and survivor benefit payments depends on a recipient’s birth date and how long they’ve been in the program. This week, payments for those born between the first and 10th of any month will be issued on Wednesday, August 13.More payments will be made on the following dates:Wednesday, August 20: Benefits for those born between the 11th and 20thWednesday,…

CBS News Live CBS News Los Angeles Live Authorities say that a girl was bitten by a mountain lion in Malibu on Sunday night.Deputies were dispatched to the 32500 block of the Pacific Coast Highway at around 5:45 p.m. after learning of the incident, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Circumstances leading up to the attack remain unclear, but deputies said that the girl’s family took her to a nearby hospital afterwards. Her condition was not immediately known. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife took over the investigation, according to LASD. There’s no word on where the mountain lion went…

A Reddit user expecting a refreshing gulp of water in a Dutch hotel recently had an unfortunate surprise when the bottle was filled with a, well, pee-like substance. FatDevilicious made the report on the r/Netherlands subreddit, writing “One of the “sealed” complimentary water bottles in our room smelled strongly like urine and was yellow.” The hotel guest clarified that he’s not sure it was sealed, but it appeared to be and was placed in the correct position. Unfortunately, the guest’s wife reportedly had a sip “before realizing something was very wrong and [spitting] it out immediately.” Hotel reacts According to…

Container shipping is giving out misleading signals. On the one hand, time charter rates are at highs never experienced outside the covid era, while spot rates have been on a decline for nine straight weeks. Likewise, global liners are muddying the outlook – one raising its full-year forecast, while another has decided to lower its own 2025 financial projections. The Containership Timecharter Rate Index handled by Clarksons Research is standing firm at 198 points, the highest level seen outside of the covid period. Analysts working for Hamburg’s New ConTex, a tracker of container time charters, note levels across all segments…

A man walks past China’s and USA’s flags before a meeting between US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Guangdong Zhudao Guest House in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, on April 5, 2024. Pedro Pardo | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and China have yet to announce an extension to their tariff deadline, with tensions over several thorny issues flaring up again just as a fragile truce nears its expiry.Following the latest bilateral meeting in Stockholm in July, Beijing had struck an optimistic tone, saying that both sides would work toward extending…

WALDORF, Md. (AP) — A fire ripped through a house in Charles County, Maryland, on Sunday, killing four children and two adults, authorities said.One person managed to escape the blaze reported around 8:40 a.m. at the home in Waldorf, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) south of Baltimore, WTOP-TV reported.It took about 70 firefighters more than an hour to control the flames. One firefighter was hospitalized and another first responder was treated at the scene for unspecified injuries.The cause of the fire was under investigation. Master Deputy State Fire Marshal Oliver Alkire said the blaze originated on the right side of the home…

LONDON — The Al Jazeera media company said in a Sunday statement that four of its journalists — including prominent correspondent Anas Al Sharif — were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent housing reporters in Gaza City.Fellow correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal were also killed in the attack, Al Jazeera said.The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it targeted Sharif, claiming the correspondent headed a Hamas cell and was involved in rocket attacks against Israeli targets.A Palestinian boy stands beside the destroyed Al Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City…

The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version of the tool that could be exploited to obtain arbitrary code execution by crafting malicious archive files. “When extracting a file, Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)

Joe PikePolitics investigations correspondentNurPhoto via Getty ImagesMotorists over 70 could be banned from the roads if they fail compulsory eye tests, as part of a radical shake-up of driving laws in England and Wales.Plans also include reducing the drink-driving limit in both countries to be in line with Scotland’s laws, and introducing penalty points for passengers not wearing a seatbelt.The move comes after an inquest into four deaths caused by drivers with failing eyesight saw a coroner call the UK’s licensing system the “laxest in Europe”.The changes are expected to be included in a new road safety strategy set to…